[Megathread] Final Fantasy XIV

[Berethos08]

Do you all think final fantasy 14 will go free to play if ff15 is gonna be their next big mmorpg

If.

Considering it's a single player offline entry in the FF series...

That's one massive "if."

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Yoshida has repeatedly said he d rather shut the game down than make it f2p so I don't think we ll ever see that.
And I freaking love him for that I dont want the f2p taint anywhere near this game.

[Strangebrew]

Awww shit, i just won the jumbo cactpot
http://images.akamai.steamuserconten...58A21D02930D8/

Life is good.

[Remilia]

The facial expressions of the Hildibrand are what makes me love it so much. I really do enjoy the humour of it, but those facial expressions. They are so GOOD.

Yes they are.
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[Eleccybubb]

Do you all think final fantasy 14 will go free to play if ff15 is gonna be their next big mmorpg

15 is a single player game so why would it go f2p when it is still doing quite well?

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Awww shit, i just won the jumbo cactpot
http://images.akamai.steamuserconten...58A21D02930D8/

Life is good.

Like I said our number in EU was "0001". A lot of annoyed people

[Graeham]

Nice!

I just hit the 'random' button every week. I got third place once but never anything higher. I hear they're increasing the number of tickets that can be bought each week though.

[Faroth]

Well, I pulled it off. Completed my relic before the 3.2 patch.

Total gil cost from start to finish was 750,000 gil. Not too bad, really.

[Eleccybubb]

Well, I pulled it off. Completed my relic before the 3.2 patch.

Total gil cost from start to finish was 750,000 gil. Not too bad, really.

Mine cost 1 mil. I'm basically broke now for 3.25 . But meh I'll end up getting lucky and end up getting something to sell for a few bob like a whisker or rare pet . I had the same luck on wow when I was broke I'd start getting good drops and making a few gold.

[Madruga]

Mine cost 1 mil. I'm basically broke now for 3.25 . But meh I'll end up getting lucky and end up getting something to sell for a few bob like a whisker or rare pet . I had the same luck on wow when I was broke I'd start getting good drops and making a few gold.

Well I hope we don't have a crafting step any time soon. Those 4 crafting items came too soon for my taste.

We will inevitably arrive to the meld materia step, but I hope there will be time to recover my purse. It is quite broke now.

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Finished it as well like 2 weeks ago now working on my paladin relic

[Berethos08]

Nice!

I just hit the 'random' button every week. I got third place once but never anything higher. I hear they're increasing the number of tickets that can be bought each week though.

Best I've managed in the Jumbo was 4th place. Crowning moment though was getting 1 Mythril pack and 3 Gold packs and walking away with a Zidane and a Bartz Klauser being two of the four cards.

[Aurimas]

Do you all think final fantasy 14 will go free to play if ff15 is gonna be their next big mmorpg

You've already been properly chastised about 15...

However, playing along, the answer is NO. FF11 is still pay to play (last I checked a few months ago), and that game is older than WoW with like 6 people still playing it.

I like it. I don't do most free to play games because of the increased trolls.

[Eleccybubb]

You've already been properly chastised about 15...

However, playing along, the answer is NO. FF11 is still pay to play (last I checked a few months ago), and that game is older than WoW with like 6 people still playing it.

I like it. I don't do most free to play games because of the increased trolls.

It is still pay to play but the pc servers have shut down now and the ps2/360 servers are doing so next month.

[Faroth]

Well I hope we don't have a crafting step any time soon. Those 4 crafting items came too soon for my taste.

We will inevitably arrive to the meld materia step, but I hope there will be time to recover my purse. It is quite broke now.

Apparently there's going to be daily and weekly quest approaches to gaining materia. I think they want it in use, but not at 3+ million per materia again.

[Berethos08]

It is still pay to play but the pc servers have shut down now and the ps2/360 servers are doing so next month.

Every source I've seen indicates the PC servers are still up and week continue in a sorry of maintenance mode, and it's just the console versions being taken offline.

[Kazgrel]

So I finished my anima today finally, then I realized I still hadn't done the 3.1 main storyline

It took me all of a hour and change to do all of the 3.1 MSQ stuff, and that's factoring in a flub on the last quest.

Something I've probably overlooked in the patch notes: Any further progression for the new anima weapon? I would assume so but I think I simply overlooked it. I've only picked up the starting quest for the crystal/fate farming in HW areas.

Edit: On the Hildibrand note, they're executing that stuff exactly as it needs to be, where it's added in every so often and it is completely optional and not part of the main story. I don't ever see any of that changing (and I am a fan of the whole Hildibrand deal/concept).

[Aurimas]

There was no Hildibrand note. "If I ever have to talk to Hildibrand I quit" was basically the Hildibrand note.

I've said a bunch of times in this thread that for some reason in mmo's people need to find things to complain about before they quit. Not liking the comedy of a quest is the epitome of that... even if he popped into the main story instead of side quests.

I don't know how community managers of mmo's handle it. I don't do well with threats, or veiled threats, or even passive aggressive shit. Hell, even just those stupid "cleaning up my facebook / no one reads my statuses" comments... "Bye Felicia" is, in my mind, the only possible response. So I just keep my mouth shut.

[Faroth]

Something I've probably overlooked in the patch notes: Any further progression for the new anima weapon? I would assume so but I think I simply overlooked it. I've only picked up the starting quest for the crystal/fate farming in HW areas.

No advance on the new anima weapon in this patch. This patch puts in the new raids that will have better than anima weapons available, relic will take its step up towards those and be back on the same cycle of progression as 2.0 series. The relic weapon typically is a small step behind raid weapon until the end of its quest chain where I think it was on par with the raid weapons (though even then, it was months after raid released for the relic's final patch to make that step).

The relic's next phase, as well as possibly some tweaks to the current steps, will be in 3.25 in March.

[Wrecktangle]

Yup.
Being sat for classes that do more DPS in HFC (before the buff happened) was one of the last straws needed for me to discontinue raiding.
I'm just sick and tired of Blizzards inability to balance Shadow and how terrified they are we might do too much because of multidot capabilities...

I feel your pain man. Ret and Shadow always had it rough. Only having 1 DPS spec will do that sadly.

"Happens to work" is a funny way of saying someone wrote a plugin specifically for reading the combat log in FF14, which ain't all that different from having someone write a third party mod that plugs directly into the game and reads the combat log.

Agree to disagree I think. While it's true both programs are third party created and distributed one works directly via plugging into the API, and one works by sniffing data illegally per the TOS. One is fluid and controllable, one requires significant settings tweaking depending on your own network to ensure accuracy. It's completely irrefutable to say say they're on par from a weight, accuracy, customization, or user friendly perspective.

[Granyala]

I feel your pain man. Ret and Shadow always had it rough. Only having 1 DPS spec will do that sadly.

Well I'm a "filthy non raiding casual" now... so no need to worry about that anymore.